Epil6hium.'\ 



XXVIIL ONAGRACE^. 



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5. P. aucupuria Giertn. (^3 fountain- ash or ItowavAi^ee) ; leaves 

 pinnate usually glabrous when old, leaflets serrate, flowers 

 corymbose, fruit (small) globose. Sorbus E. _B. t. 337. 



Mountainous woods and hedges, frequent, especially in the High- 

 lands of Scotland. I7 , 5, 6. — The cells of the fruit are coi'iaceous 

 and flexible in this and the next. 



6, P. A^ria Sm. (white Beam-tree) ; leaves somewhat ovate 

 serrate cut or pinnatifid or partly pinnate white and downy 

 beneath, flowers corymbose, fruit globose. — «• "leaves oval or 

 oblong unequally and doubly serrate or slightly lobed towards 

 the end, nearly entire below." E. B. t. 1858. — /?. leaves 

 oblong doubly serrate near the apex pinnatifid below, pinnse 

 lanceolate oblong serrate the two lowermost distinct." P. 

 pinnatifida Sm. E. B. t. 2331. P. Fennica Bab. — y. "leaves 

 broad lobed, lobes triangular oval toothed deepest towards the 

 middle of each side of the leaf." P. Scandica Bah. 



Mountainous woods, especially in a chalk or l/mestone country; 

 England and Scotland, Cunnamara and Killarney, Ireland. j8. Isle of 

 Arran, Scotland. 7. Cliffs at Minehead and N. Devon. I7 .' 5, 6. — 



There is a general character 

 about all the above varieties which to us links them together; but as 

 Mr. Bahington has come to an opposite conclusion, and as we have 

 not specimens of his ^. Scandica, we quote from him the only dif- 

 ferences that are indicated. 



Fruit red, rather larger than the last. 



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Oed. XXVIII. OXAGRACE^ Juss. 



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Calyx-tube adnate with the ovary entirely or in part ; limh 

 2- or generally 4-lobe(l, the lobes valvate in {estivation. Petals 

 2, generally 4, twisted in asstivation, arising from the mouth of 

 the calyx. Stamens inserted into the calyx, and twice as many 

 as Its lobes, or fewer. Ovary of 2—4 cells, often crowned by a 

 disk. Style filiform ; stigma capitate or lobed. Fruit a berry, 

 or dry and usually dehiscent. Seeds without albumen.— 

 Herbs or Shrubs. Leaves frequently opposite. 



1. Epilobium. Stam. 8. Cal.-limb divided nearly to the basG,.de- 

 •9 rb ^^"^"^"^- Seeds many, with a tuft of hairs. 

 /. UixoTiiERA. Stam. 8. Cal.-Hmb tubular at the base, deciduous, 

 beeds many, naked. 



^^itd^Y* ^'^^'^' ^' ^^^■"^™^ 4-parted, persistent. Seeds many, 

 ,4. CiRCEA. Stam. 2. Seeds 1—2. 



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1. Epilobium Linn. Willow-herb. 



Cal.-limh deciduous, 4-partite or nearly so. Pet. 4. Stam. 8. 



ca;«MZe elongated 4-celled, 4-valved, many-seeded. Seeds with 



tutt ot hau-s at. one extremity. _ ITamed from ett,, upon, and 



